netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ibmveth: Do not process frames after calling napi

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:48:45 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ibmveth: Do not process frames after calling
 napi_reschedule

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:17:01 -0600

> The IBM virtual ethernet driver's polling function continues
> to process frames after rescheduling NAPI, resulting in a warning
> if it exhausted its budget. Do not restart polling after calling
> napi_reschedule. Instead let frames be processed in the following
> instance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>

Applied.